Note:**See the previous homework assignment
for a clickable Westward Expansion project rubric.
See the Link Powerpoints in the links section (left) to access a copy of our Manifest Destiny Powerpoint. Use images from this for your presentation if you wish.
1. Reading & Notes Pageant pages 275-284 and 287-293 and 376-389
Create note cards for these topics. The links are clickable on our homework page!
Sam Houston
Stephen Austin
empresario
Santa Fe Trail
Tejanos
General Antonio López de Santa Anna
Remember the Alamo!
Lone Star Republic
John Jacob Astor
Oregon Trail
Donner Party
"54° 40' or Fight!"
"Mr. Polk's War"
General Zachary Taylor
General Winfield Scott
Slidell Mission
Battle of Vera Cruz
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Wilmot Proviso
Free-Soil Party
Forty-Niners
Compromise of 1850
2. Begin studying for the test on November 8th, Friday.
